Re: Steepest train/tram line

[freedom2measure@usa.net]

It is heartening to see that resistance to the metricators is Wrold Wide. It
is too bad that ordinary Australians were never able to vote on metrication
though.

Best regards,

Freedom2measure
http://www.freedom2measure.org

In article <74f31g$p5$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au>,
  G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert) wrote:
> "Ron BEST" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >BTW, on a (vaguely) related subject, I heard that when Metrication hit the
> >Aust. railway systems, Victoria refused to relocate their mile posts to
> >become kilometre posts, but invented a thing called a "railway distance
> >unit', equal to 1.61 kilometres!
>
> They called a "mile-post", abbreviation MP in all the railway
> documents, a "Measurement Post", so the abbreviations stayed the same.
> Then they expressed distances as MP230 plus 450 metres.  A sillier
> thing has rarely been seen (but I could be wrong)
>
> Geoff Lambert
>
>

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